Immanuel
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No, we are supposed to provide health care for the single mother that is working for minimum wages. A single mother who may have achieved that status by marrying a man that was in the service and gave that last full measure of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.
That is a much more valid picture than the one that Chanel gave.
I have absolutely no problem providing health insurance for such a person. It seems criminal that we don't.
My problem is sort of two fold: I don't like the idea of the government being the only provider of health insurance and if you read the aspects of the "public option", which is no option at all, you can see that this is what the government is reaching towards. The second part of my problem is the idea that I will be forced to have health insurance whether or not I can afford it and since I make close to the subsidy level, if my employer decides to stop providing the benefit, I will not be able to afford it, or go to jail.
I simply cannot afford to pay $1200/month (and I don't for a moment believe that the public option will bring the costs down) for health insurance. So, what am I supposed to do now? Move to a cardboard box just so that I can keep myself out of jail thanks to Nancy P?
Immie